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This infuriates me. How much more are they going to decide needs to be regulated in the name of “fairness”?
A senator whose undefeated home state school was bypassed for the college football national championship last season urged President Barack Obama on Wednesday to ask the Justice Department to investigate the Bowl Championship Series, citing Obama’s own concerns about the way the top team is crowned in building a case for action.
“Mr. President, as you have publicly stated on multiple occasions, the BCS system is in dire need of reform,” Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said in a 10-page letter to Obama calling for an antitrust probe of the BCS. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the letter.
Shortly after his election last year, Obama said he was going to “to throw my weight around a little bit” to nudge college football toward a playoff system.
Obama and Hatch are among the many critics of how the BCS — a complex system of computer rankings and polls that often draws criticism — determines its national champion.
Hatch, who held a hearing on the BCS in July, told Obama that a “strong case” can be made that the BCS violates antitrust laws.
To Orrin Hatch: I’m very sorry that University of Utah did not make it to the national championship last year. The Gators would have beaten them anyways. Stop being such a damn sore loser. Even with a playoff system, someone’s still gotta lose. It’s just the way it is — that’s called competition.
Concerning the BCS system, like every other college football fan out there, I don’t like it. I, too, think that there needs to be a playoff system. But that doesn’t mean that there should be a government regulated one! I mean, how much more preposterous can you get?! Regulating college football? Is there literally nothing in this country that these sleazy politicians don’t want to get their greasy hands into??
(That was a rhetorical question, by the way.)
Really, Obama should avoid this like the plague if he has any sense at all. I would say that I can’t believe that Orrin Hatch would be so stupid as to let this go public, but, you know… the GOP isn’t known for having a lot of great thinkers on their side right now. In any case, our lawmakers have got enough to worry about as is without taking on college football as was.
They think Americans are pissed now? Just bring up the government controlling college football. Then you’ll really see some pissed-off people.
As a die-hard Sooner fan, I would rather have seen Utah in the BCS Championship last year… Getting tired of seeing the Sooners get beat down on the national stage……
Knott Buyinit says: The congress, the NCAA…what’s the difference?
Shortly after his election last year, Obama said he was going to “to throw my weight around a little bit” to nudge college football toward a playoff system.
Oh, my word. I can’t remember where I saw this, but many years ago there was this printed interview of Miss Piggy from the Muppets, someone asked her what new rules she’d like to make if she ran everything. And she said first of all, she was tired of (in the days before DVR) having to choose what to watch. She wanted a rule that if one of the television networks was scheduled to run something particularly interesting or funny on a given evening, all the other channels should be required to put on something almost terminally monotonous like “The History of Socks.”
Someone get Mister Wonderful a DVR if he doesn’t already have one (after that Region debacle with PM Gordon Brown, who the hell knows??) — like, NOW. And God forbid the scale should tip a couple pounds heavier than His Holiness is expecting, or we’ll see something coming out about gravity. Good Lord.
Cassy, thanks a million for this idea about my next list. I’m going to enjoy cranking it out. Hugely. Going to buy a box of beer just for the occasion.
Aw, double-dog-damn. I already had my fun with this, and then forgot about it. Been blogging too long, I guess.
Thing is though — on some of my ideas I was clearly joking. And those ideas make a lot more sense than some of this other stupid stuff Obama is actually wanting to do.
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